I had heard that Z was in a gated community and should not have been there. He was cutting through the gated community to get where he was going. He was 250 miles from his home. He was with his dad someplace different than home.

Sheds more light on the guy who still gets to tell his side of the story. He has had a few days to work on his side, so it might be a brilliant story.

I have seen the photos of the 17 year old (including the one in the motivation poster which is not him but was taken from a neo-nazi website). I have heard that he did some stupid stuff here and there but he is a teenager. I think to myself this guy is justified killing him because he has smoked some weed? I don't know. I think about the stupid shit I did as a teenager, and wonder if that would have been used against me if someone had killed me. This story is getting muddier and muddier by the day.
Did Z have the right to harass the M, yes. Was he reckless in doing so? yes. Is a kid now dead because Z thought he might be someone he clearly wasn't? yes.

Sheds more light on the guy who still gets to tell his side of the story. He has had a few days to work on his side, so it might be a brilliant story.

I have seen the photos of the 17 year old (including the one in the motivation poster which is not him but was taken from a neo-nazi website). I have heard that he did some stupid stuff here and there but he is a teenager. I think to myself this guy is justified killing him because he has smoked some weed? I don't know. I think about the stupid shit I did as a teenager, and wonder if that would have been used against me if someone had killed me. This story is getting muddier and muddier by the day.
Did Z have the right to harass the M, yes. Was he reckless in doing so? yes. Is a kid now dead because Z thought he might be someone he clearly wasn't? yes.

I don't care what happened beforehand, if Z followed him or not. When Martin decided to attack him, he took it too far and its his own fault he's dead. He made the choice to make a confrontation physical.

I don't care what happened beforehand, if Z followed him or not. When Martin decided to attack him, he took it too far and its his own fault he's dead. He made the choice to make a confrontation physical.

Again, allegedly.

I agree, whoever escalated the situation to a physical confrontation is the one who is at fault.
It could come down to “dead men tell no tales”. If M had managed to get the gun away from Z, M would be telling his tale.

Sheds more light on the guy who still gets to tell his side of the story. He has had a few days to work on his side, so it might be a brilliant story.

I have seen the photos of the 17 year old (including the one in the motivation poster which is not him but was taken from a neo-nazi website). I have heard that he did some stupid stuff here and there but he is a teenager. I think to myself this guy is justified killing him because he has smoked some weed? I don't know. I think about the stupid shit I did as a teenager, and wonder if that would have been used against me if someone had killed me. This story is getting muddier and muddier by the day.
Did Z have the right to harass the M, yes. Was he reckless in doing so? yes. Is a kid now dead because Z thought he might be someone he clearly wasn't? yes.

You don't know that. Tray could very well have been the person breaking into houses or whatever.

Sheds more light on the guy who still gets to tell his side of the story. He has had a few days to work on his side, so it might be a brilliant story.

I have seen the photos of the 17 year old (including the one in the motivation poster which is not him but was taken from a neo-nazi website). I have heard that he did some stupid stuff here and there but he is a teenager. I think to myself this guy is justified killing him because he has smoked some weed? I don't know. I think about the stupid shit I did as a teenager, and wonder if that would have been used against me if someone had killed me. This story is getting muddier and muddier by the day.
Did Z have the right to harass the M, yes. Was he reckless in doing so? yes. Is a kid now dead because Z thought he might be someone he clearly wasn't? yes.

This is a tragedy, no doubt. Somebody was killed, a black boy by a white guy and this is big news according to the media. But you hear nothing about the 2 black boys that lite a 13 year old white boy on fire with gasoline.
This is an attempt to racially divide this country by the media, liberals and our president who also said that this kid could have been his own son.
This will get worse across this country. And just when you would think that racisim is getting behind us. It is sad to think we are getting more and more racially divided all in the name of politics and votes.

This is a tragedy, no doubt. Somebody was killed, a black boy by a white guy and this is big news according to the media. But you hear nothing about the 2 black boys that lite a 13 year old white boy on fire with gasoline.
This is an attempt to racially divide this country by the media, liberals and our president who also said that this kid could have been his own son.
This will get worse across this country. And just when you would think that racisim is getting behind us. It is sad to think we are getting more and more racially divided all in the name of politics and votes.

Need to reread who did the shooting.

But then, so does Not so sharpton and crew. It's an election year, lots of politicians are going to jump on the racial bandwagon.

Hell, the kids parents are already looking at ways to turn this into a profit for them.